On February 25, Beijing time, the AFC officially announced the changes to various competitions, including the World Cup, women's football, clubs and youth competitions.
Among them, the World Preliminary Tournament play-offs will be played in Qatar, which is quite advantageous for Asian teams. The national football team, on the other hand, did not even win the top three in the group.
In addition, the AFC Champions League and the Asian Association Cup will start new year's eve competitions in the 2023 season, and the number of foreign aid will increase.
In 2023, there will also be U17 Asian Cup and U20 Asian Cup competitions, and the current Chinese teams at all levels should be fully prepared.
Before the World Preliminary Round, many media advocated that it was necessary to get the top two places in the group to have a chance to reach the World Cup. But after that, FIFA changed the conditions for the play-offs, and the two teams will decide to win and lose in the neutral position. This invisibly increases the variability of the game and gives all play-off teams the opportunity.
Now, the AFC has officially announced that the play-offs will be played in Qatar. This is exactly the same as the previous conjecture. This means that there are great prospects for qualifying against an Asian team in fifth place in South America.
However, it is a pity that the national football team has missed the top three in the group. The UAE in Group A and Japan or Australia in Group B are the most likely teams to be play-offs.
The AFC Champions League and the Asian Association Cup have also seen major changes, one of which is the number of foreign aid.
At present, these two competitions are 3+1 foreign aid requirements, but after that, it will become 5+1. This is very beneficial for West Asian teams, while among the East Asian and Southeast Asian teams, only the Japanese league has 5 foreign players.
In addition, the AFC stressed that the importance of the Asian Association Cup will be exactly the same as the AFC Champions League. In 2020, the Asian Association Cup was cancelled, and last year, there was no place in Southeast Asia willing to host the match, which caused the AFC to be quite angry.
From next season, the Asian Association Cup and the AFC Champions League will be held on New Year's Eve. This means that the Korean and Japanese teams will become very busy.
The biggest beneficiaries of the 5 foreign aid will be the teams of Oman and Jordan participating in the Asian Association Cup. Previously, former Chelsea player Mikel, both joined West Asia and participated in the Asian Association Cup.
The AFC Champions League plans to set up a prize money for the women's AFC Champions League, and they will receive a 5% prize money for the AFC Champions League champions and runners-up. And this game will come in the 2023 season.
This year, the AFC is also expected to launch the Women's AFC Champions League, but did not elaborate on whether it will be a competition in West Asia or an East Asian region. It also did not explain the limit on the number of foreign aid in the women's AFC Champions League.
The current women's football clubs, the strongest clubs come from our Women's Super League and The Japanese Women's Super League. Jiangda Women's Football Team, which has won the championship for two consecutive years, has the opportunity to represent the women's super league in this competition.
In addition, the divisional competitions of the U17, U20 and U23 Asian Cups are likely to change dramatically. As a result, the situation in which the East Asian group was weak and it was easy to qualify in the past will change. If the rules change, it will be beneficial to West Asia.
And this year, there will be a U23 Asian Cup competition. China U23 did not participate in the competition for the first time.
In 2023, there will be U17 and U20 Asian Cup matches. This means that the 03 age group and the 06 age group are about to usher in preparation. The strong teams of these two age groups include Evergrande Football School, Haigang, Hubei Football Association, Shandong Luneng and other teams. However, these young people's competitions are really a little less.
In addition, the results of the young women's football team in recent years have been unsatisfactory. Compared with the men's youth team with training and competition, they need more opportunities to exercise and compete.
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